Japanese Stimulus Package

[Michael Cohen]

Does anybody know the details of the Japanese stimulus package.
I was briefly watching a FNN broadcast in Japanese on my Cable Channel.
With a small amount of English thrown in.
It appeared to be advertizing mortgages with virtually zero interest
rates,
massive slashes in their income tax which they were at pains to point
out would be progressive and a 30,000 yen voucher (read $2,000 dollars
or so)
to be handed out to each individual//family.

Is this propaganda, my misunderstanding or what actually passed?  Does
anybody have the facts on what the Japanese are proposing to deal with\
their crisis.  Its hard to imagine anything like a $2000 cash voucher to
be given
to all families on the table in the US.  The only thing I didn't see
advertized was a Tobin Tax!
What is the state of Labor Unrest, Unions in Japan at present?

         --mike

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